ok, i probably am, but the way new mothers do thing s now, and there attitude is really getting on my nerves.

[pukkapatch]

rant alert
te entire holier than thou attitude. huge genreralistaion, i know. but whats so speical about waiting till the baby is six months old before weaning that will garantee said mothers a direct ticket to heaven?
from what i recall, upping the age to six months didnt happen because of some amazing scintific breakthrough. no new data was used t o make the decision. (a mnetter showed the evidence of this on some thread.
and then the whole breast bottle thing. the ones spouting statistics at everyone, with their smug expressions. it doesnt matter. every mom does what she sees as best for her baby. we dont constantly need to have information shoved in our noses.

my eldest is ten, and youngest four, so i'm not that far away from these subjects, but, some peoples attitudes just really really get on my tits.

I think it's still going.

niecie darling, i havent done a runner. i was off celebrating Eid. real life does sometimes intrude into these wonderful discussion we have here on mumsent.

this thread seems to have gone off in its own direction. i dont particularly want to read any of it right now, but niecie your post , whichis the only one that i read, because it had my name in it in the threads i;m on section.
this thread was started ranting about the attitude of new moms on here, and how they look down their noses at older moms. it could have been a discussion about teenagers looking down their noses at parents fashions from the seventies or eighties, or judgemental mil's, it was NOT started as a thread about the correct way to do things with babies, or incorrect ways. had that been the intention, it would have been started in weaning, or breast/bottle feeding.
regardless, 277 posts shows that mumsnetters have had entertainment from it. enjoy!

Eid Mubarak!

Eid mubarak to you too!

sorry have only read the op and acouple of posts straight after.

Pukkapatch, I heart you!!!!

I had my kids 15 and 13 years ago, bottlefed them both as they were both in incubators for weeks on end, put them on baby rice at about 4 months because they looked hungry and seemed to enjoy it.

Have never read a parenting book or magazine in my life until teenage stage.

Until I joined mn I had no idea people were obsessed with fruitshoots, bf, blw & all that stuff, and am frequently blown over by how strongly people seem to feel about a lot of it and how they all seem to have read the same book about babycare.

It's fine, I just now avoid all the baby stuff but sometimes feel that people can't be relaxing and enjoying their babies for worrying about WHO guidelines etc.

Obsessed? Are you sure?

Did you not fret at any aspect of parenting either?

You are most unusual, well done you.

and lol maybe you wouldn't have had to read those books about teenagers if you'd Done It Properly when they were wee.

Zealot.

Tbh, ds 1 had so many probs (severe brain injury, eventually died aged 7) that just keeping him alive was enough to worry about! All the physio, hydro, OT, medical appts etc were almost a full time job & I didn't really have time to worry too much about the little stuff.

Oh mumblechum

Anything compared with that will seem trivial, undoubtedly.

Looking after a child with severe CP is very draining, and much different from your usual, run of the mill parenting.

god, i can't imagine, no wonder you just got on with things.

Thanks.

mumblechum,

i cant agree with you more about mothers obsessing about fruit shoots etc. Things so trivial hardly cross my mind. And as for WHO guidelines i really cant believe so many people outside of the health profession seem to know them inside out. Personally, i prefer Company magazine. .

Pukka -

It's all good (the MN thing) the only thing I mind is when you come on to give another side of it (ie what was done 10/ 20 years ago to provide a bit of balance to what can sometimes be a very one sided barrage of advice) and then you are basically slated for the way you brought yours up (even though they are perfectly healthy, non allergic, polite and happy children) without any allowance made for experience!!

GAD. the fruit-shoots thing is A JOKE. and Company mag... well that explains a lot.

Giving your Dc a fruitshoot isn't necessarily trivial, of course in comparison to what mumblechum as going through, it is, but not to everyone.

I personally think it's bad to put the word fruit on something to pretend it's healthy, and I don't have a problem with my DC's having things that aren't healthy now and then either, we have a takeout at least once every couple of weeks and they have coke with it, so I'm not exactly perfect wrt feeding them the healthiest diet ever, but IMO moderation is the key.

Now if you don't like or care about the threads regarding fruit shoots, or greggs sausage rolls or BLW, BF/FF, etc etc, then don't bother coming on them, but there is no need to slag people that do, or people who are keen on following the guidelines.

Gosh some of you get sooo serious! Im sorry but id rather read company than have my head stuck in a text book on reading guidelines. As long as your children are happy, safe and loved thats all that matters, not keeping up with the latest research.

Safe??? so guidelines do not have any bearing on safety???
Of course not.

As for being too serious and textbooks etc, I'd rather be on a website reading about things that could possibly put my children at risk thatwhatever tosh company are spouting about the latest celebrity war.

ah, the old 'head stuck in a book' attack.

would that your fellow health care professionals were so willing to acknowledge the fact that they don't really care about 'keeping up with the latest guidelines'. i really can't believe that you don't let these feelings leak into your job, BJ.

its all these glossy mags, the've frazzled my brain

FWIW, I don't actually think I've ever read a book on parenting, just followed links from other people and googled a few things that I was interested in, oh and I read the leaflets I get given at the hospital.
I was reading one yesterday about donating milk whilst waiting for blood test results, killed some time.

oh yes, good point. i never read any books on parenting either, nor did i during pregnancy. i wish i had, now, actually.

oh i dont want to go down that road about my job again. I subscribe to journals, read guidelines, attend study days etc and all of this stuff applies to work. I apply some of it at home, other stuff i dont. Am i not allowed to have a little light relief at home and read mags. Surely, most people dont prefer reading WHO guidelines in their spare time, Even more so if you do it for your job